10 Video Games That Gut Punch You In Act One

10. Worldwide Destruction - Saints Row IV

Hard to punch both the characters and audience in the gut harder than literally blowing up the planet.

Saints Row IV starts off by having the boss of the Saints turned president of the United States being abducted by an alien warlord and subjected to a virtual hellscape. But if it were that easy to keep the avatar of chaos and carnage known only as "the boss" down, we wouldn't have a franchise.

So of course the boss breaks free and tries to get back to Earth... and then the alien warlord blows the planet to hell, taking a huge chunk of the cast from Saints Row The Third with it.

This scene loses points for it mainly being played for laughs, but it's still the entire planet being blown up in the first act of the story. That's still a ballsy way to cap off the first segment of the story.